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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Symons, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University Michael Schiffer / Unsplash Life has transformed our world over billions of years, turning a dead rock into the lush, fertile planet we know today. But human activity is currently transforming Earth again, this time by releasing greenhouse ... <a title="Should we fight climate change by re-engineering life itself?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/should-we-fight-climate-change-by-re-engineering-life-itself-227995/" aria-label="Read more about Should we fight climate change by re-engineering life itself?">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Baker, Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images As local and regional councils struggle with inadequate infrastructure and unsustainable costs, New Zealand will be hearing a lot more about the potential solution offered by so-called “city deals”. These deals are ... <a title="‘City deals’ are coming to NZ – let’s make sure they’re not ‘city back-room deals’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/city-deals-are-coming-to-nz-lets-make-sure-theyre-not-city-back-room-deals-228599/" aria-label="Read more about ‘City deals’ are coming to NZ – let’s make sure they’re not ‘city back-room deals’">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Sacks, Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock In recent years, there’s been increasing hype about the potential health risks associated with so-called “ultra-processed” foods. But new evidence published this week found not all “ultra-processed” foods are linked to poor health. That includes the ... <a title="Not all ultra-processed foods are bad for your health, whatever you might have heard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/not-all-ultra-processed-foods-are-bad-for-your-health-whatever-you-might-have-heard-229493/" aria-label="Read more about Not all ultra-processed foods are bad for your health, whatever you might have heard">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University T.J. Thomson We upload some 3 billion images online each day. We make most of these photos on smartphones and use these devices to document everything from gym progress and our loved ones to a ... <a title="Photos are everywhere. What makes a good one?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/photos-are-everywhere-what-makes-a-good-one-229011/" aria-label="Read more about Photos are everywhere. What makes a good one?">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Weijers, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Co-editor International Journal of Wellbeing, University of Waikato Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images It’s been seven years since the launch of Replika, an artificially intelligent chatbot designed to be a friend to human users. Despite early warnings about the dangers of ... <a title="AI companions can relieve loneliness – but here are 4 red flags to watch for in your chatbot ‘friend’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/ai-companions-can-relieve-loneliness-but-here-are-4-red-flags-to-watch-for-in-your-chatbot-friend-227338/" aria-label="Read more about AI companions can relieve loneliness – but here are 4 red flags to watch for in your chatbot ‘friend’">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Williams Veazey, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney DavideAngelini/Shutterstock In the 2007 film The Bucket List Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two main characters who respond to their terminal cancer diagnoses by rejecting experimental treatment. Instead, they go on a range of energetic, overseas ... <a title="Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/paris-in-spring-bali-in-winter-how-bucket-lists-help-cancer-patients-handle-life-and-death-225682/" aria-label="Read more about Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Singh, Professor of Agri-Food Biotechnology, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne., The University of Melbourne Tanja Esser/Shutterstock Australia’s vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods. Climate ... <a title="Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/heat-is-coming-for-our-crops-we-have-to-make-them-ready-223553/" aria-label="Read more about Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition DPVUE .images/Shutterstock Your home was probably designed for a climate that no longer exists. As long as humanity continues to burn fossil fuel, padding the heat-trapping blanket of gases in Earth’s atmosphere, the weather will become more volatile. Without ... <a title="A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/a-sponge-city-may-be-your-home-in-2050-229565/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is talking up the crucial role of gas as a transition fuel “through to 2050 and beyond”. In a gas strategy to be released on Thursday, the government envisages the fuel’s uses would change over time, as ... <a title="Gas is good until 2050 and beyond, under Albanese gas strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/gas-is-good-until-2050-and-beyond-under-albanese-gas-strategy-229635/" aria-label="Read more about Gas is good until 2050 and beyond, under Albanese gas strategy">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Next week the government will again next try to get its legislation through to deal with non-citizens who won’t cooperate with efforts to deport them. The bill, which the opposition and crossbench refused to rush through in the last parliamentary ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: James Paterson on prospects for passage of the government’s deportation bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/politics-with-michelle-grattan-james-paterson-on-prospects-for-passage-of-the-governments-deportation-bill-229626/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: James Paterson on prospects for passage of the government’s deportation bill">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bree Hurst, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Law, QUT, Queensland University of Technology TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock A much-awaited report into Coles and Woolworths has found what many customers have long believed – Australia’s big supermarkets engage in price gouging. What started as a simple Senate inquiry into ... <a title="Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/yes-australias-big-supermarkets-have-been-price-gouging-but-fixing-the-problem-wont-be-easy-229602/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Ghezelbash, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney The Albanese government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its migration amendment bill. The report, handed down yesterday by a senate committee that reviewed the bill, showed why. ... <a title="The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. Given the findings, it’s easy to see why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/the-government-wanted-to-avoid-an-inquiry-into-its-deportation-bill-given-the-findings-its-easy-to-see-why-229384/" aria-label="Read more about The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. Given the findings, it’s easy to see why">Read more</a>
